Research Project Taps Free Computing Power
The World Community Grid, a new project started by the IBM Corporation, in Armonk, N.Y., aims to solve big social problems using relatively small amounts of donated computer power from millions of users. Through the project, computer users can donate their machines’ unused processing power for…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Two Animal-Protection Groups Plan to Merge in 2005
Two leaders in the field of animal protection have decided to join forces. The boards of the Humane Society of the United States, in Washington, and the Fund for Animals, in New York, have voted to combine operations. The merger will formally occur on January 1. The decision to merge was not driven…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The Tech Museum of Innovation has presented its annual awards honoring the creative use of technology to benefit society in the areas of economic development, education, the environment, equality, and health. Among the winners, who received $50,000 each: International Development Enterprises, in…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Free Software Offered to Filter Out Spam
Mailshell, a San Francisco software company, is working with the nonprofit site TechSoup.org on a campaign to help charities fight unwanted e-mail messages. The effort will culminate in Mailshell’s giving copies of its spam-filtering software free to American and Canadian nonprofit organizations…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Colleges and Schools Send E-Mail Appeals
In a survey of college and private-school fund raisers, conducted by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, in Washington, about half of the 510 respondents said their institutions had started making annual-fund appeals via e-mail. The study found that e-mail solicitations still make…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Software Company Expands Its Reach
Kintera, a San Diego company that provides Web-based software for nonprofit organizations, has signed an agreement with Intuit to acquire American Fundware, which makes accounting software designed for charities and government agencies. Intuit, a Mountain View, Calif., company that produces…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Humanitarian Groups Rethink Operations After Apparent Death of Iraq Worker
Last week’s news of the apparent killing of Margaret Hassan, a CARE official in Iraq, left many humanitarian workers not only mourning her death but also pondering its implications for how they must operate in the future. Mrs. Hassan, 59, was abducted last month from the office where she worked as…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bits: Project Alchemy To Shutter
At the end of the year, Ed Batista plans to step down as executive director of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, in San Francisco, a national organization for individuals, charities, and businesses that provide technology assistance to nonprofit groups. The organization’s board of…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Guide Offers Advice on Disaster Recovery
A new guide from the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York helps charities develop a plan to get their operations back to work quickly after a disaster. The manual, which is available free online, discusses issues nonprofit groups should think through to develop a disaster-recovery plan,…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Helps Needy Get Discounts on Drugs
A coalition of more than 90 national nonprofit organizations is helping low-income people who receive Medicare benefits enroll in programs to reduce the cost of their prescription medications. Central to the campaign is a Web site, BenefitsCheckUpRx, that alerts potential applicants to the…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor